RCom offers Ultraband service with 1 Gbps speed in Mumbai

According to the company’s website, the Ultraband service is currently available at Seawoods Estates in Navi Mumbai and at Imperial Towers in Mumbai.Danish Khan | ETTelecom | Updated: April 25, 2016, 17:38 IST

NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications (RCom) has rolled out its Ultraband service with upto 1 Gigabit per second speed in Mumbai.

According to the company’s website, the Ultraband service is currently available at Seawoods Estates in Navi Mumbai and at Imperial Towers in Mumbai.

The Anil Ambani-owned company claims that its Ultraband service is 50 times faster than the average Internet speeds in India, and about 10 times faster than the best speeds any other ISP provides.

The company said that the Ultraband service will enable customers to download movies 10 times faster, watch streaming HD videos without buffering and complete all other internet transactions in a whisker.

“Ultraband primarily meets the needs for faster internet connectivity especially in the age of high definition content. Your experience will be refreshingly different while watching Netflix, or while streaming HD content over your TV, or while many of your family members use the internet simultaneously on their handsets, tablets and laptops,” the company’s website said.

“With Ultraband you can get internet speeds upto 1 Gbps. It would take less than 2 minutes for you to download a HD movie of 5 GB,” it added.

RCom said that that the 1 Gbps speed will dependent on user’s Wi-Fi router capability and also on the capability of the connected devices such as smartphones, tablet, laptop and SmartTV. “Both Wi-Fi router and smart devices have to support 1 Gig speeds,” the company said.

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